Question

so basically i created this array to convert an indexed array into a assoc array.

say this is my input array

$input = array('this is the title','this is the author','this is the location','this is the quote');

and this is my function

function dynamicAssocArray($input)
{
    $result = array();
    $assocArrayItems = array('title', 'author', 'location', 'quote');
    $assocItem;

    foreach ($input as $value)
    {
        for ($i=0; $i <= 3; $i++)
        {
            $assocItem = $assocArrayItems[$i];
        }
        $result = $result[$assocItem] = $value;
    }
    return $result;
}

im getting this error “Warning: Illegal string offset ‘quote'” and the output is string(1) “t”

which i totally do not understand, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

try this

function dynamicAssocArray($input)
{
    $result = array();
    $assocArrayItems = array('title', 'author', 'location', 'quote');
    $assocItem;


        for ($i=0; $i <= 3; $i++)
        {
            $assocItem = $assocArrayItems[$i];
            $result[$assocItem] = $input[$i];
        }


    return $result;
}

echo "<pre>";
print_r(dynamicAssocArray($input));

output

Array
(
    [title] => this is the title
    [author] => this is the author
    [location] => this is the location
    [quote] => this is the quote
)